The Pinball Arcade Great PS4 news for the first day of Christmas! The digital version will be available for download on PSN Dec. 17th in north America and 18th for SCEE regions. The retail PS4 version of pinball arcade is available online now at Amazon http://tinyurl.com/jvzqacx and will soon be on shelves at Gamestop, Toys 'R' Us and other retailers in North America!
The Game is not going to be cross-buy. All the trophies are specific to the platform. This is good news to a lot of people that really like to rack up those trophies.
The screenshots in the new PS4 blog post look good:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/12/16/pinball-arcade-out-tomorrow-on-ps4/
I like that it's available on disc. I could see at some point in the future after PS4 is done, something silly happening if your PS4 dies and the game is gone from your account, or you didn't renew your membership and it's not in the store anymore, FS out of business (god forbid!), or something. Annoying crap of some fashion like that tends to happen. So having a physical version available of it is a nice backup.
I'm actually kind of worried about some aspects of this in-the-cloud-only future for games/software. We are no longer responsible for taking care of/worrying about our games... which translates to: we the company will take care of what you paid for, trust us! ....it's in the End User License page 19 sec 6, you're safe, it clearly says we are obligated to keep the software on your account for a only 10 years, ok!? Errrr....
Time-based licensing + cloud storage + out-of-business publishers... hmmmm. People yielding even more control.
Kudos to Bobby King for his classy responses to questions in there, like specifically telling one person that their competitor's product (Zen) IS coming to PS4. He could have easily ignored the question but instead chose to give that information. Well-done, sir.The screenshots in the new PS4 blog post look good:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/12/16/pinball-arcade-out-tomorrow-on-ps4/
I'm totally new to ps4. Does it allow a game disc to be copied to the ps4 hdd? If so, must the disc then be present to play the game?
Are we there yet?
Nah. Waiting it out. Will buy the disc when it is on sale for $10 or $20. Waiting on the playstation store to update. Already checked a few times. Should happen within a few hours I guess.